Convivial Living in Berlin

Housing shortage crisis affecting Berlin since 2004 inspired a good number of self-organized housing experiments within the city along with neoliberal profit-seeking large housing projects. We will seek to understand the Berlin context and related housing problems, seeking *convivial solutions to the more than a hundred years old  ‘Wohnungsfrage’ of modern times (*see Ivan Illich). The design process will require an overall understanding of history and sociopolitical roots of mass housing, community-making processes, urban agriculture, zero waste, bricolage, DIY, possible housing plan schemas, and construction details, under the impending climate crisis.